exudates and Cerebrovascular-Disorders

Topics: Adult; Australia; Cerebral Infarction; Cerebrovascular Disorders; Developing Countries; Female; Humans; Malaysia; Male; Registries; Risk Factors

Age-standardised death rates, for ages 35-64 years in both sexes, from ischaemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, and hypertensive disease for Chinese, Malays, and Indians in Singapore (1980-84) have been compared with those in England and Wales, USA and Japan (1982). For ischaemic heart disease Indians have the highest mortality, then Malays, with Chinese less than the Western countries but more than Japan. For cerebrovascular disease the Malays have highest mortality, then Indians, then Chinese, followed by Japan, England and Wales, and USA in that order. For hypertensive disease it is again Malays, then Indians, then Chinese, but followed by the different order of USA, England and Wales, and Japan. The differences are discussed in the light of declining trends in mortality from these disease in Singapore over the preceding 25 years. The special problems of ischaemic heart disease in Indians and hypertension and it's sequelae in Malays are highlighted.

Topics: Adult; Cardiovascular Diseases; Cerebrovascular Disorders; China; England; Ethnicity; Female; Humans; India; Japan; Malaysia; Male; Middle Aged; Singapore; United States; Wales

Topics: Adult; Cerebrovascular Disorders; China; Female; Hospitalization; Humans; India; Malaysia; Middle Aged; Prognosis; Retrospective Studies

One hundred and thirty-two newly diagnosed Asian diabetic patients (39 Malay, 30 Chinese and 63 Indians) have been studied in Kuala Lumpur. The highest proportion of diabetic patients were Indian and the lowest were Chinese. Vascular complications were equally common in Asian diabetic patients as in Europeans; coronary heart disease was relatively more common in Indians and cerebral vascular disease in Chinese. Twenty percent of all Asian diabetic patients requiring admission to hospital also had coronary heart disease, 9% had cerebral vascular disease and 8% had gangrene or ulceration of the feet. In Kuala Lumpur, diabetes is a very important risk factor for coronary heart disease: 17% of all patients admitted to the General Hospital with coronary heart disease were already diabetic.

Topics: Adult; Aged; Blood Glucose; Cerebrovascular Disorders; Cholesterol; Coronary Disease; Diabetes Mellitus; Diabetic Angiopathies; Diabetic Retinopathy; Feeding Behavior; Female; Humans; Hypertension; Insulin; London; Malaysia; Male; Middle Aged; Obesity; Triglycerides; Uric Acid

Topics: Aged; Angina Pectoris; Animals; Arteriosclerosis Obliterans; Cerebrovascular Disorders; Chronic Disease; Drug Evaluation; Enzyme Therapy; Enzymes; Female; Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage; Hemolysin Proteins; Humans; Injections, Intravenous; Injections, Subcutaneous; Malaysia; Pregnancy; Snakes; Species Specificity; Time Factors; Venoms